Reviews

Sci-fi? Really? No, this was a movie with three guys walking and talking through a green landscape with some ruins. Utterly boring and uninteresting talk. This is not a sci-fi movie. Nothing strange, out of the ordinary happened. There were a lot of talk that the Zone is a dangerous place, but heck no. Ok, maybe I watched the movie 39 years too late? Maybe in 1979 this was in fact a creepy movie? But,... nah, I would not think so. Remember the Alien, from 1979. That was a really creapy move. Ok.. so.. this was a really great art type of movie then? Nooo, it wasn't. Unless Sepia is considered enough for a movie to be considered art? Or unless never keeping a camera still is art? The camera was shaking during all scenes. My first thinking was that they must have done this movie in a hurry because the camera man did not even have time to fixate the camera. And you know what? Half of the movie was re-shot, because the original footage was damaged when they developed the film.So of course they was in a hurry. And maybe that is explaining the amateurish feeling of this movie. From it's dialogue to the actually filming and even direction. I don't know russian at all, and relied on a kind of strange english translation. Not even sure that was the official translation. But anyway, I felt the actors were poor, and the dialogue had no real depth. It was kind of a forced dialogue to create a sense of urgency and mysticity, but since the movie did not show anything that seemed unnatural or strange (except for the telekinetic in the end), it was just plain boring and pompous.

I am sure there are people who like this movie, but because you are suppose to like a movie by I think they are far less compared to the people who pretend to like the movie. However, I am comfortable and secure enough about my mental capabilities to dare to say that this was not a good movie. It is a B-movie, made by one of the most regarded directors ever lived.